
The Key Moment
Making smart choices immediately after closing on a trawler can help improve your boating experience.

Making smart choices immediately after closing on a trawler can help improve your boating experience.


Survey approval by an insurance carrier clears your path to trawler ownership.

Most often, after a trawler is surveyed, negotiations will follow to allow for repairs and close a sale.

When a pre-purchase survey finds big-ticket problems, there are smart ways to keep the deal alive.

Allotting time for a post-survey recap is a vital step in the boat-buying process.

A pre-purchase haulout is a great time to learn more about a boat’s below-water features and is a vital part of the survey process.

A pre-purchase propulsion prognosis is an important step in the buying process.

It is imperative that you hire the best surveyor available and that your search to identify that person is given priority treatment as soon as you are ready to write up an offer.

Most purchase and sale agreements stipulate that your deposit is due once the seller accepts your written offer. The amount is normally 10 percent of the contracted price, and typically, it must be received into the broker’s trust account within three business days.

The crew of Celt, a Nordhavn 43, explore Australia and Indonesia on their multiyear circumnavigation.

All the right things, in all the right places.

Bearings from the Editor’s Desk

Devising a safe, easy way to get our dog on shore from an anchorage required some innovation.

Before you go to sea, know how to access telehealth services, acquire medication refills and get medical care.

Planning for loss of steering and engine control requires familiarity, not new equipment.

A set layout is paired with an impressive list of standard equipment on a proven hull design.

When you can’t go any faster or slower, there are other options to help you arrive safely.

Let’s bring back these nautical words and terms. They’re better than the way we communicate today.

Once a rescue craft, this Norway-built steel trawler is the ticket to ride for a venturesome crew.